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Joker: Folie à Deux
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Joker: Folie à Deux

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Joker: Folie à Deux is a 2024 American jukebox musical legal drama film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Based on DC Comics characters, it is the sequel to Joker (2019). Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck / Joker, reprising his role from the first film, alongside Lady Gaga a…

Lyle and Erik Menendez
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Lyle and Erik Menendez
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Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez, commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convi…

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Lyle and Erik Menendez
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Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez, commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convi…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
2008
Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
2003
Siegfried_&_Roy
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
1992
Sinéad_O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
1991
Nadine_Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1989
Moisés_Giroldi
Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
1981
1981_Irish_hunger_strike
A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
1963
Oswaldo_López_Arellano
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
1962
Mercury-Atlas_8
Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
1953
Holy_Rosary_Cathedral_(Vancouver)
Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

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